1001 Inventions
Edited by Salim T. S. al-Hassani
8 reading locations
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“…B.C.E.), Democritus (460-370 B.C.E), Hippocr ates (460-377 B.C.E.). Aristotle (383-322 B.C.E), Archimedes (287-212 B.C.E.). * I use the term "pbuh," meaning "Peace Be Upon Him/Her" to indicate the respect paid by Muslims to…”
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“…the writings of ancient thinkers like Brah magupta, Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Hippocrates into Arabic to allow debate and development of mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, and engineering. It was a golden age of…”
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“…is entering our eye that represents the object. Aristotle, Ga len, and their followers believed in this model, but their theories were speculation and not backed up by experiments. Ninth-century polymath AI-Kindi first…”
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“…House of Wisdom, who translated the works of Aristotle. BOTTOM: An archival photo shows Baghdad in 1932. Eleven centuries earlier ; the city was the site of the House of Wisdom.…”
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“…from Latin The Book of Animals by Aristotle, which was in 19 chapters. Hunayn ibn Ishaq was also a renowned translator of the books by Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen. It is…”
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“…enhanced by Muslims The critique and commentary on Aristotle by ({The real jewel of Toledo is to be found in the cit y's libr aries and invo lved all three communit ies {M…”
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“…work on music, philosophy, and his commentaries on Aristotle-is credited with a treatise of geometric constructions from tools with various restrictions. His work was titled, rather exotically, A Book of Spiritual Crafts and…”
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“…(2 87-212 B.C.E.); Syracuse, Si cily; astronomer . Aristotle (3 83-322 B. C.E. ); Stagirus, Gr eece; philosoph er. Roger Ba con (12 14 -1292 ); Ilc hester , En gland; physicist, chemist,…”
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